Credits in PowerPoint presentations

[Ruth Lorbert]

How do you have your middle school students include citation information in their PowerPoint presentations? If they use multi-media elements such as photos, audio files, music, and video, how are these cited? Do your students apply MLA formatting rules and include a bibliographic list or create an ending "credits" slide? Please share what has worked with your students.

Thanks in advance,
Ruth

[Kate Hodgson]

HI Ruth, Some of our grade 6 students are using PowerPoint to present their work on a persoanl history project. The teachers and I met about how to include the citations and we decided that for now the students would add a slide at the end of the presentation and include all citations. Some teachers opted for the students to seperate the citations according to format and others wanted them all alphabetical in one list. The students are using MLA format for their citations. I would like to hear if anyone else has any ideas on how best to include citations on PowerPoint citations.

[(Peg) Marianna DeMott]

I know some of the language arts teachers want the kids to do citations without the crutch of a citation generator but I know myself when I took a graduate course a couple of years ago how valuable these tools can be so this is what I do with my students. I have them use the citation generator in MS Word (2007 version) then they copy and paste the information into their Power Point. I really wish that tool were included in the Power Point. I teach keyboarding for 7th and 8th graders and really think this is a good place to use citation tools available online. They do need to learn that capitalization is important but some of the punctuation gets done for you so that's really nice. My relaxed reading 6th graders do a persuasive book talk on a book they read in a literature circle and I require the book to be cited so it's an easy introduction to citations, just one entry.

[Lisa Nocita]

We subscribe to NoodleTools and use Noodlebib to create MLA citations. We can export from Noodlebib to a word document and then we copy and paste into a powerpoint slide for the works cited. You can use parenthetical citing as you go along too if you feel really strongly about it. Lisa

[Tami Fox]

Our students are required to cite everything, whether in PPT or Photo Story or Publisher or Word. We use MLA and post the style on both our media center website () and on the home tab of Destiny. When looking for images, we try to use www.flickr.com creative commons images, rather than google images.